¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Calumets
1. calumet [n] - See also: calumet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calumets
Literary usage of Calumets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Country in Story (1917)
"INDIAN calumets A The day was spent by the savages in speeches, feasts, songs,
and dances. The next morning the chief with six hundred of his Indians ..."
2. Indian Story and Song, from North America by Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1900)
"moved around the circle, waving the "calumets" over the heads of the multitude.
As the "calumets" passed slowly by, the people took up the choral, ..."
3. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1900)
"When the Chief has directed them to approach, they advance ; those who have the
calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, ..."
4. The Early Jesuit Missions in North America by William Ingraham Kip, Jesuits (1846)
"When the chief has directed them to approach, they advance ; those who have the
calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The sacred ritual pipes had the same function within the tribe, as the Wa-wan or
calumets of Fellowship had between different tribes, and they also were ..."
6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1895)
"The entrance of the Omahas into the group of tribes that agreed to respect and
to observe the ceremony of the Wa-wan, Pipes or calumets of Fellowship, ..."
Other Resources:
